This is the second book of the series “Piccola biblioteca di letteratura inutile” (Small library of useless literature) of the independent publishing house ItaloSvevo, with the graphic design by Maurizio Ceccato. Piccolo dizionario delle malattie letterarie (Small dictionary of literary diseases) by Marco Rossari is a 60-pages book that describes the tics, attitudes, phobias and bad habits that are typical of writers and all book lovers.